Lee Pomeroy is an English musician, best known for performing bass guitar and backing vocals with several artists, including
Jeff Lynne's ELO,
It Bites,
Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, also known as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW), were a progressive rock band founded by former Yes (band), Yes members Jon Anderson (vocals, acoustic guitar), Trevor Rabin (guitar, vocal ...
,
Take That
Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow is the group's lead singer ...
,
Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English guitarist who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis (band), Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three l ...
and
Chris Braide. He has also worked with Take That's
Gary Barlow as a solo artist.
Pomeroy is a member of
Rick Wakeman's English Rock Ensemble and the
progressive metal
Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal music, heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" and amplified electric guitar, guitar-driven sound of the former with t ...
band
Headspace, founded by Wakeman's son
Adam
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According to Christianity, Adam ...
and
Damian Wilson
Damian Wilson (born 11 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Wilson works in the progressive metal genre and was the lead singer of Headspace (band), Headspace and Threshold (band), Threshold. He sang and toured with ban ...
.
Biography
Pomeroy's first big break was in the progressive rock band Genaside 2 in 1997. This led to him joining UK prog and electronic group
Archive
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, with which he contributed, bass, guitar and mellotron.
Pomeroy has regularly performed with Rick Wakeman in the English Rock Ensemble. Commonly with guitarist
Dave Colquhoun with who he was also a part of the band Moondigger with Colquhoun on lead vocals and guitar, Pomeroy on bass, keyboards and backing vocals and Michael Bowes on drums and backing vocals.
Pomeroy was recruited by musical director
Mike Stevens to be part of the backing band for Take That when they reformed in 2005. Pomeroy played bass alongside Stevens, guitarist
Milton McDonald, drummer Donovan Hepburn, and keyboard players Bernie Smith and Marcus Byrne.
Pomeroy joined
It Bites in 2006, recording albums with the band including ''
The Tall Ships''.
In the early 2000s, Pomeroy and
Adam Wakeman
Adam Wakeman (born 11 March 1974) is an English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath. Wakeman has also worked with Annie Lennox, Tra ...
(son of Rick Wakeman), who he played with in Rick Wakeman's English Rock Ensemble, discussed forming a band. They were joined by vocalist
Damian Wilson
Damian Wilson (born 11 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Wilson works in the progressive metal genre and was the lead singer of Headspace (band), Headspace and Threshold (band), Threshold. He sang and toured with ban ...
, drummer Richard Brook and finally, in 2005, guitarist Pete Rinaldi. The new band,
Headspace, had their live debut in 2007, opening for
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead singer of the heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which per ...
(in whose backing band Adam Wakeman played). Their debut release was 2007's EP ''I Am...''. Their first studio album, ''
I Am Anonymous'', took until 2012 due to conflicting work and family pressures.
Pomeroy performed bass and Chapman Stick on Steve Hackett's 2012 album ''
Genesis Revisited II''. Pomeroy then went to perform bass, 12 string double neck, rhythm guitar and backing vocals on the Genesis Revisited tour. Performances at the Hammersmith Apollo and Royal Albert Hall were recorded in the live albums ''
Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith'' and ''
Royal Albert Hall
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Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres ...
''.
After former ELO members Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy performed a successful concert at the
Children In Need Rocks concert in 2013, with Mike Stevens as musical director, a request for ELO to reform caused Lynne to hire Stevens and the Take That backing band to perform at the
BBC Radio 2
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's
Hyde Park festival in 2014 with the
BBC Concert Orchestra. Pomeroy has performed bass and backing vocals live with Jeff Lynne's ELO since 2014 including both of their tours.
Pomeroy was also a member of the pop group This Oceanic Feeling collaborators
Chris Braide (vocals, keyboards, guitars) and
Ash Soan (drums), they release one album called ''Universal Mind'' which featured him on bass, chapman stick and guitar.

Alongside Rick Wakeman, Pomeroy performed with Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman on bass guitar and backing vocals. Pomeroy played with ARW on both of their tours (except on the 2017 Japanese and 2018 European legs, where he was deputised by fellow Jeff Lynne's ELO touring member and
10cc
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singer Iain Hornal).
In 2022, Pomeroy joined
Canterbury based progressive rock band
Caravan after playing as a guest bass player on their 2021 album ''It’s None of Your Business''.
Pomeroy performed bass/vocals on the English Rock Ensemble spring 2022 tour with
Hayley Sanderson on vocals, Dave Colquhoun on guitars, backing vocals, and
Rick and
Adam Wakeman
Adam Wakeman (born 11 March 1974) is an English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath. Wakeman has also worked with Annie Lennox, Tra ...
(keyboards).
Style
Pomeroy is primarily known as a bass guitarist, but also plays
Chapman Stick, bass pedals, synth bass, double neck guitar / bass (with Steve Hackett), rhythm guitar and even the spoons.
Pomeroy performs bass guitar left-handed with left-handed instruments but stringed as a right-handed instrument.
Regarding learning to play, he said, "My brother had a bass guitar, and I used to pick it up and have a thrash around on it when he was at work.... I know this sounds weird - I didn’t actually learn it as such, because I could play the bass as soon as I picked it up. I never had to work out how to play it, or even how to hold it, even though it was upside-down because I’m left-handed.”
He has described Yes bassist
Chris Squire as his hero,
and compares his sound to Squire,
Geddy Lee
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and
Paul McCartney
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.
He uses various equipment including:
* 1965, 73 & 77
Fender Jazz basses
*
Rickenbacker 4003
* 1980
Musicman Stingray
*
Fender Precision
*
Musicman Stingray 5 string
*
Chapman Stick
*
Taylor Acoustic Mini bass
*
Shergold Double Neck Bass / Guitar
*
Moog Taurus 1 bass pedals
*
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a Capstan (tape recorder), capstan, which pulls i ...
*
Line 6 Variax 300
Discography
Credits based on Discogs and AllMusic.
Solo Releases
* 2001 – ''Ambient Collectio'n'' – With Various
* 2002 – ''funk'' – With
Warren Bennett, John Cameron and Steve Emney
* 2007 – ''Sold Out'' – With Martin Price
With Rick Wakeman
* 2001 – ''Live From Buenos Aires'' – With the English Rock Ensemble
* 2001 – ''Out of the Blue'' – With the New English Rock Ensemble (bass)
* 2003 – ''
Out There'' – With the New English Rock Ensemble (bass)
* 2005 – ''Made in Cuba'' (bass)
* 2006 – ''Retro'' (bass)
* 2007 – ''Retro 2'' (bass, bass pedals)
* 2012 – ''
Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' (bass; 2012 re-recording)
* 2012 – ''In the Nick of Time: Live in 2003'' – With the English Rock Ensemble (bass)
* 2020 - ''
The Red Planet''
With
Archive
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* 1999 – ''
Take My Head'' (guitar, bass guitar)
* 2002 – ''
You All Look the Same to Me'' (bass)
* 2003 – ''
Michel Vaillant (Bande Originale du Film)'' (bass)
* 2004 – ''
Noise
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''
* 2006 – ''
Lights'' (bass,
mellotron
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)
* 2006 – ''System'' (bass)
* 2009 – ''
Controlling Crowds Part IV'' (mellotron)
With Take That
* 2006 – "
The Ultimate Tour"
ideo(bass guitar)
* 2007 – "
I'd Wait For Life"
ingle(bass guitar on live tracks)
* 2007 – "
Reach Out"
ingle(bass guitar on live tracks)
* 2008 – ''
Beautiful World Live'' (vocals, bass guitar)
* 2009 – ''
The Greatest Day – Take That Present: The Circus Live'' (bass guitar, keyboards, backing Vocals)
* 2009 – "
Said It All"
ingle(bass guitar on live tracks)
* 2011 – ''
Progress Live'' (vocals, bass)
* 2015 – ''Live 2015'' (bass guitar)
* 2019 – ''
Odyssey - Greatest Hits Live'' (bass guitar, vocals)
* 2019 – "
Relight My Fire (Live)" – Featuring Lulu
ingle(bass guitar)
* 2019 – "Cry"
ingle(bass guitar)
With Headspace/Damian Wilson
* 2007 – ''I Am/...'' –
P Headspace (bass)
* 2012 – ''
I Am Anonymous'' – Headspace (bass, chapman stick)
* 2016 – ''Built for Fighting'' –
Damian Wilson
Damian Wilson (born 11 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Wilson works in the progressive metal genre and was the lead singer of Headspace (band), Headspace and Threshold (band), Threshold. He sang and toured with ban ...
(bass)
* 2016 – ''
All That You Fear Is Gone'' – Headspace (bass, backing vocals)
* 2021 – ''Limehouse to Lechlade'' – Damian Wilson (bass)
With Steve Hackett
* 2010 – ''
Out of the Tunnel's Mouth'' (bass)
* 2012 – ''
Genesis Revisited II'' (bass, chapman stick)
* 2013 – ''
Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith'' (bass, vocals, 12 string guitar, bass pedals)
* 2014 – ''
Genesis Revisited: Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' (bass, vocals, 12 string guitar, bass pedals)
With Others
* 1997 – Икра – Мумий Тролль (Bass)
* 1998 – Come As You Are
ingle– The King (Bass)
* 1998 – Gravelands – The King (Bass)
* 1998 – Flotation Toy Warning – Intravene (Appearance)
* 1999 – Ad Finite –
Genaside II (Band Member)
* 1999 – Another Sleepless Night – Jina (Bass)
* 2000 – Here We Go
ingle– Moonbaby (Bass)
* 2001 – A Tribute to Yes
urple Pyramid– Various (Bass)
* 2001 – Progressive Rock Anthems
t. Clair– Various (Bass)
* 2001 – Progressive Rock Classics – Various (Bass)
* 2001 – Progressive Rock Epics – Various (Bass)
* 2001 – Every Song You Make, Vol. 1: Sting/Police Tribute - Various (Bass Guitar)
* 2004 –
Finding Neverland ">riginal Motion Picture Soundtrack- Jan A.P Kaczmarek (Bass)
* 2008 –
The Tall Ships –
It Bites (Bass)
* 2009 – Piano Adagio – Various (Composition)
* 2010 – Smile – Voice In a Million (Bass)
* 2010 –
Calling All the Heroes ingle– It Bites (Bass, Backing Vocals)
* 2011 – It Happened One Night – It Bites (Bass)
* 2012 – Map of the Past – It Bites (Bass Guitar, Band Member)
* 2012 – Live in London –
Terry Reid (Bass)
* 2013 –
Nocturnal
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Nocturnal creatur ...
–
Yuna (Bass)
* 2014 – Dreaming Of England –
Downes Braide Association (Bass Guitar)
* 2015 – Suburban Ghosts – Downes Braide Association (Bass Guitar)
* 2015 – Universal Mind – This Oceanic Feeling (Producer, Electric Guitar, 5 String Bass, Bass, Chapmans Stick)
* 2015 –
Jeff Lynne's ELO: Live in Hyde Park –
Jeff Lynne's ELO (Bass, Vocals)
* 2017 –
Wembley or Bust – Jeff Lynne's ELO (Backing Vocals, Bass)
* 2018 – 50th Anniversary: Live at the Apollo –
Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, also known as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW), were a progressive rock band founded by former Yes (band), Yes members Jon Anderson (vocals, acoustic guitar), Trevor Rabin (guitar, vocal ...
(Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals)
* 2020 – In The Year 3073-Book II – Projekt Gemineye (Bass Guitar)
* 2021 – It's None Of Your Business –
Caravan (guest bass)
* 2021 – A Silent War – SRMeixner (Sounds)
* 2021 –The Reality Of Zeros And Ones – Darby Todd (Bass)
References
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Living people
English rock bass guitarists
21st-century English bass guitarists
Progressive rock bass guitarists
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Hoxton